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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm
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Just typed in a wonky URL, and instead of my regular browser error page, I get a custom Virgin Media page offering me a search.  This seems to be new - I’ve not seen that until today. Thankfully, I can opt out and that seems to have opted out the whole network, not just this machine, which is good.
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| Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:22 pm |
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Nick
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:36 pm
Posts: 3527
Location: Portsmouth
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It's their DNS servers.
I use OpenDNS which does something similar, but they're faster and more reliable than most ISPs servers. They also have some error correction in them, so if you put something a bit stupid then it will correct it. For example, if abcdefg.co.uk doesn't exist, it will try abcdefg.com for you automatically.
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| Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:42 pm |
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm
Posts: 7173
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+1 for openDNS, sometimes BT's DNS servers are shocking. And don't get me started on Tiscali, TalkTalk et al.
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm
Posts: 8767
Location: behind the sofa
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I bloody hate that. You type one letter wrong and you're redirected to a totally different page so you have to type the whole darned thing in again rather than simply correcting the mistake! _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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| Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:25 pm |
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bally199
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:52 pm
Posts: 1036
Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire
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Virgin media fcuking suck.
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm
Posts: 10691
Location: Bramsche
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A lot of ISPs seem to be taking this route. T-Online do it as well. They probably get cash for the landing page from the search company... 
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| Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:17 am |
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Nick
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:36 pm
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Location: Portsmouth
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I find it quite handy. I don't think it's turned on by default anyway. I think that's just something I've turned on for our account. _________________
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